GENERAL INDEX.

Prefatory note[3]
Memoir of Major S. S. Forman[5]
Forman’s narrative[5]
Tunis Forman captures two Tories[6]
Major Lee’s strategy[6]
British foray at Middletown Point[6], [7]
Major Burrows’s loss and captivity[7]
Denise Forman’s services[7]
General David Forman[7]
German town battle[7]
Capture of a British sloop[8]
A British and Tory scout[9]
Services of Major Burrows[9]
Major Burrows’s narrow escape[9], [10]
Denise Forman and Philip Freneau[10]
Sufferings in British prison ships[10], [11]
Captain Freneau’s after-life[11], [12]
Monmouth battle[12]
Fugitives return to New York[12]
British evacuate New York[13-15]
Lieutenant-Colonel J. N. Cumming[14]
Anthony Glean noticed[14]
Washington parting with his officers[15]
Washington and Franklin in Federal Convention[15]
Washington’s second inauguration[16]
Major Forman settles at Cazenovia, N. Y.[17]
His subsequent career[17], [18]
His narrative—departure for the Ohio[19]
Detention at Lancaster[20]
Meeting Charley Morgan[22]
Scant of funds for traveling[22]
Arrival at Pittsburg[23]
Flat-bottomed boats for the journey[23]
Colonel Turnbull’s entertainment[24]
Departure down the river[25]
Difficulties of navigation[25], [26]
Arrival at Wheeling[26]
Flocks of wild turkeys[26]
Arrival at Marietta[27]
Limestone and Columbia[27]
Arrival at Cincinnati[27]
General Harmar’s hospitality[27], [28]
Captain Kirby vs. Captain Kersey[28], [29]
General Jonathan Forman noticed[29]
General Harmar’s defeat[30]
Indian rendezvous at Scioto[30]
Gallipolis settlement[30], [31]
Anecdote of Captain Osmun[31]
Arrival at Louisville[32]
Fort Jefferson; Fort Steuben[32]
Ensign Luce and North Bend[32], [33]
Lacassangue and his station[33], [34]
Early dancing parties at Louisville[35], [36]
Generals Wilkinson and St. Clair[35]
Dr. John F. Carmichael[36]
Ezekiel Forman starts for Natchez[36]
Effort to lure ashore and destroy Forman’s party[37]
Louisville incidents; Ashby and family; Mr. Smith; moccasins at balls[38], [39]
An egg-nog frolic[39], [40]
The Sabbath kept by S. S. Forman[40]
A billiard-table at Louisville[40], [41]
A fleet of tobacco boats[41]
Mr. Buckner purchases Mr. Forman’s goods[42]
Mr. Forman’s mishap[42]
Departure from Louisville[42], [43]
Incident at Fort Massac[43]
Planters and sawyers[44]
Mouth of the Ohio[44], [45]
An Indian alarm[45]
Indian visit; dinner[46]
Visit Indian village[46], [47]
Arrival at L’Anse a la Graisse[47]
Lieutenant Foucher’s hospitality[48-50]
Lieutenant Foucher noticed[47], [48-50]
Colonel Pope’s tour cited[50]
Colonel P. B. Bruin noticed[51], [52]
A cub bear[52]
Arrival at Natchez[52]
Walnut Hills settlement project[52], [53]
Dr. O’Fallon; General Clark; Colonel Holder[52], [53]
Natchez and surroundings[53]
Sir Wm. Dunbar noticed[54]
S. S. Forman’s land grant[55], [58], [59]
Fine society at Natchez[56]
Mons. and Madam Mansanteo[56]
Major Stephen Minor noticed[56], [57]
Colonel Anthony Hutchins noticed[56]
Sickly at Natchez in 1790[56], [57]
A round of visits[57], [58]
Bad treatment of servants[59]
Colonel Osmun noticed[59], [60]
Departure for New Orleans[60]
A genial priest[60], [61]
Voyage and incidents to Philadelphia[61-63]

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Major Forman’s Narrative.

Narrative of a Journey down the Ohio and Mississippi in 1789-90. By Major Samuel S. Forman, of New Jersey. With a Memoir and Illustrative Notes. By Lyman C. Draper, LL.D. of Wisconsin.

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General David Forman of New Jersey in 1789, entered into a negotiation with the Spanish minister Don Diego de Gardoque, for his brother Ezekiel Forman of Philadelphia, to emigrate with his family, and about sixty colored people, men, women and children, and settle in the Natchez country, then under Spanish authority. Major Samuel S. Forman accompanied this emigrating party, and in this narrative gives a minute account of their trip, the places they passed through and at which they stopped, prominent people they met, with many curious particulars.

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Transcriber's Note

Archaic spelling is preserved as printed.

Inconsistency in the use of apostrophes in date ranges is preserved as printed.

Minor punctuation errors have been repaired.

There were some instances of a single inconsistent spelling of a proper noun where it appears more than once. These, along with apparent typographic errors, have been repaired as follows:

Page [19]—Foreman amended to Forman—General David Forman, ...

Page [37]—beech amended to beach—... ran on the beach, imploring ...

Page [37]—Osmnn amended to Osmun—But for the circumstance of Captain Osmun ...

Page [51]—à amended to a—... from L’Anse a la Graisse to Bayou Pierre, ...

Page [57]—afflcted amended to afflicted—Uncle Forman was severely afflicted ...

Page [58]—Pittsburgh amended to Pittsburg—... which had traveled with me from Pittsburg ...

Page [60]—ta amended to at—... of the country to exchange work at times; ...

Page [63]—Wickoff amended to Wyckoff—... when I went to my friend Wyckoff, ...

Page [66]—mocassins amended to moccasins—... Mr. Smith; moccasins at balls, ...

Page [67]—Madame Mansant amended to Madam Mansanteo—Mons. and Madam Mansanteo, 56